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Tennessee has lost 10 rural hospitals, creating health care deserts for its poor residents. But, newly elected Republican governor Bill Lee resists Medicaid expansion, and he won in all but one of the counties that have experienced hospital closures.

Defeating Privatization Bill in a Single Day

Sweezy adds a layer of historical analysis to the Comintern’s theory of fascism. He does this by defining it as the product of imperialism, which can only develop in the era of monopoly capitalism.

In July 2017, China told the World Trade Organization it no longer wanted to be the end point for yang laji, or foreign garbage, with the country keen to grapple with its own mountains of waste.

Reproductive rights groups decry Trump's latest announcement, saying it further restricts women's rights.

Anne Champion writes of a woman’s rage upon realizing after a certain election “how much the world/would hate me for being a girl…/how much men could get away with."

Gen. Michael Flynn and then Jared Kushner pushed a scheme that required breaking US law, which forbids technology transfers that might allow nuclear proliferation.

A concise report will probably act as a “road map” to investigation for the Democratic House — and to further criminal investigation by other prosecutors.

In my research as an economist studying corporate welfare, I have reviewed much evidence on the effectiveness of tax and other incentives. My conclusion: Incentives just don’t work.

How can one claim that the Green New Dealers actually have history on their side, given the power of the forces arrayed against them? Consider the history of abolitionists, who demanded the immediate and total abolition of slavery.